Grammaticalisation in an L2 dialect

This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties. In Hypothetical Modality, special reference is made to Singaporean English, a native-speaker L2 dialect of considerable importance in the South-East Asian region, and to the expression in the dialect of hypothetical modality, which appears to be indistinguishable from non-hypothetical modality in terms of the use of preterite or past forms of modal verbs. Within a grammaticalisation framework, a number of factors can be seen to be relevant to an explanation, including substratum and contact features such as tense/aspect marking, levels of lexical retention as an individual (psychological) phenomenon, and the fact that such dialects have a discontinuity in their development. In addition, the book defines pragmatic approaches to the understanding of hypothetical modality, in both diachronic and synchronic terms.

4. Singaporean English and substratum influences in the grammaticalisation of hypothetical modality

85

5. The interaction of tense and aspect in the grammaticalisation of counterfactuality

111

6. Hypothetical WILL: A study in retention

137

7. The Lexical Memory Traces Hypothesis

205

8. Conclusions

247

Appendices

257

Appendix 1: Chapter 6 Questionnaire

257

Appendix 2: Chapter 6 Control Questionnaire

258

Bibliography

259

Selected bibliography

259

Primary sources

277

Name Index

281

Subject Index

283

“Debra Ziegeler's book makes a valuable contribution by bringing together two areas of research which are, more often then not, treated seperately: the development of grammar in contact sitautions and the study of grammaticalisation. The book is to be recommended for bridging grammaticalisation and contact studies. It also has much to offer to anyone specifically interested in the phenomenon of hypothetical modality.”

2006. The Nature of Irreality in the Past Domain: Evidence from Past Intentional Constructions in Australian Languages* This paper was written while I was a visiting research fellow at the linguistics department of the University of Melbourne. I would like to thank the department for its hospitality, as well as the Fund for Scientific Research–Flanders for its financial support. I am grateful to Rachel Nordlinger and two anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper, and to Bruce Birch, Alan Dench, Nick Evans, Ian Green, Shelly Harrison, Ekkehard König, Bill McGregor, Nele Nivelle, Marie-Eve Ritz and Adam Saulwick for general discussion or specific comments on some of the ideas presented here. I am of course responsible for any errors of fact or interpretation..
Australian Journal of Linguistics 26:1 ► pp. 59 ff.

2014. Replica grammaticalisation as recapitulation: The other side of contact.
Diachronica 31:1 ► pp. 106 ff.

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